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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Sandakan Airport Expansion Project in Malaysia Zhongjian Yang 1, Binglong Gao 2 1 2020 International Symposium on Frontiers of Economics and Management Science (FEMS 2020) Cost-Benefit Analysis of Sandakan Airport Expansion Project in Malaysia Zhongjian Yang 1, Binglong Gao 2 1. Postgraduate School, Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences, Beijing, China 2.International Institute of Public Policy and Management, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Abstract. Based on facts and reasonable assumptions, this paper analyzes the expansion project of Sandakan Airport in Malaysia by means of cost-benefit analysis, including both economic and social benefits. In addition, the reasonable analysis concludes that the expansion project of Sandakan Airport in Malaysia should not be implemented if only the future economic benefits are considered. But based on the social benefits, the Sandakan Airport expansion project should be implemented, and we provide recommendations for cost-cutting and increase economic benefits. Keywords: Sandakan Airport, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Social Economic, Economic Valuation. 1. Introduction Sandakan Airport (IATA: SDK, ICAO: WBKS) is a domestic airport that serves Sandakan, a town in the East Malaysian state of Sabah. It is located 14 km west of downtown Sandakan. The existing airside operation facilities including aircraft runaway has a lack of capacity to handle bigger aircraft to land at Sandakan Airport. Besides, there is a demand from the airline companies to allow bigger aircraft to land at Sandakan Airport simply because to increase the frequency of domestic flights between Kuala Lumpur Sandakan and to allow international direct flight mainly from China, Japan and South Korea. Hence, there is a gap between the airport terminal building and its airside facilities. The “Proposed Aircraft Runway Extension and Its Related Work in Sandakan Airport” is a public project that shall undertake by the Ministry of Transport Malaysia. This project is among the various national instruments to achieve the intended outcome that is “Increasing A Safe, Efficient and Rapid Passenger and Goods Movements”. The national performance target is increasing 6 % of air traffic movement per annum. Therefore, on 7th May 2017, the then Prime Minister Najib Razak announced an allocation of RM 80 million for the runway extension project in Sandakan Airport. The project was scheduled to commence beginning June 2017. However, despite having approved by the federal government in its capital budget since 2016, the Ministry of Transport is still evaluating the matter and has not yet analyzed it from the Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) perspective. It is, for this reason, we undertook this exercise purposely to explore the desirability of this public good. 2. Background 2.1 Sandakan Airport Facilities The Sandakan Airport terminal building with an area of 12,000m2was last upgraded in 2014. Its facilities include arriving and departing hall, check-in and luggage counters with the capacity to handle up to 1.5 million passengers annually. However, as of December 2018, the number of passengers handled was recorded only at 950,861 passengers. Meanwhile, the existing flight operation facilities consist of aircraft runaway at 2,133 meters, one connecting taxiway to terminal building, flight apron1 with capability to accommodate parking for two aircrafts Boeing 738 and Airbus 320, lighting systems comprising of the Aeronautical Ground Lightings (AGL) together with the precision approach category lighting system, and other airside facilities with ICAO standards. In order to increase the utilization rate of airport facilities, the Sandakan Airport operator namely Malaysia Airport Holding Berhad (MAHB) has highlighted the need to upgrade the flight operation Published by CSP © 2020 the Authors 224 facilities. MAHB also claimed that there is a demand from the airline companies to allow a bigger aircraft landing at Sandakan Airport so that they can provide international direct flight mainly from China, Japan and South Korea to fly directly to Sandakan. 2.2 Potential Benefits 2.2.1 Passenger Movements Trend Airport could provide direct air traffic flows for airlines and generate taxes for governments, and provides convenience for the citizens and tourists who want to go long distance travel. Regarding Sandakan Airports, there is stable passengers and aircraft movements as recorded by the Airport Statistic 2019, MAHB. The annual passenger numbers and aircraft statistics from 2010 to 2018 are shown as the following table 1: Table 1. Passengers and Aircraft Statistics from 2003 to 2018 Passengers Cargo Aircraft Movements Year Rate of change Rate of change Rate of change Number Number Number (%) (%) (%) 2010 741 674 10.29 2 806 33.68 13 517 4.66 2011 788 515 6.31 2 300 -18.03 11 715 -13.33 2012 834 626 5.85 2 479 7.78 13 153 12.27 2013 911 855 9.25 2 894 16.74 12 856 -2.26 2014 900 016 -1.30 2 497 -13.72 12 696 -1.24 2015 853 411 -5.18 3 147 26.03 12 705 0.07 2016 863 644 1.20 3 220 2.32 12 722 0.13 2017 800 542 -7.31 2 809 -13.69 12 077 -5.07 2018 806 696 0.77 2 968 5.66 12 109 0.26 We could find in the table 1 that the passenger numbers reached a maximum level at 911,855 passengers in 2013. However, the number of passenger movements had a downturn in the next two years. The current poor facilities and infrastructure of Sandakan Airport is among the main reason for poor number of passenger movements. Although the number of passengers, cargo and Aircraft movements at Sandakan Airport increased from 2013 to 2018, the overall trend remained downward. 2.2.2 Tourism Industry Performance Tourism is the main income industry in Sabah, and there were 3.68 million tourists visiting Sabah in 2017, of which 1.23 million are international tourists (Sabah Tourism Board, 2017). Tourism industry generated RM7.8 billion revenue for Sabah in 2017, relatively 8% increase from RM7.2 billion in 2016. As the key infrastructure of tourism, the Kota Kinabalu International Airport and Tawau Airport have achieved rapid growth for passenger movements, which is nearly 40% for the past 5 years. However, the passenger movements in Sandakan Airport is growing quite slow. It means that the tourism industry in Sandakan has not been completely famous and matured yet. The room occupancy rate of hotel industry in Sandakan is only 30%, meaning to say that there are 70% hotel rooms are vacant. Hence tourism has potential and can help increase the demand of airport services in Sandakan. 2.3 Impacts of Alternative Project In doing CBA by following the 10 steps of its analysis sequences, we identify the alternatives and list its impacts on each alternative and the existing project. Two other alternative projects are namely option 1 is the construction of the commuter railway between Kota Kinabalu (KK) and Sandakan and option 2 is the construction of the highway between Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan. 225 The assigned impact is best described in table 2. Then, we assign values to these impacts. The assumption of the costs for these values are listed as table 2. Table 2. List of alternative projects and its value assigned impact No. Impact Cost Note Option Tourists directly fly to Sandakan and stay and RM 80 - 1 tourism. Direct increase on tourist numbers. million 210km Option Assumption according the About RM 2 Tourists fly to KK first and then decide ECRL cost/length ratio. 14 billion whether to come by train/car or not. Indirect 210km Refer the Guthrie Corridor Option increase of tourism with uncertainty. About RM Expressway, RM 20 3 4.2 billion million/km. The comparison of those options 3 shows that the cost extension airport runway project is the lowest value. More importantly, it also has the most obvious and direct impacts on local tourism and the economy. By contrast, the other two options involve a bigger amount of investment with more uncertain results. The total population of Sandakan is only 494,900 (DOSM, 2018) the potential requirement and demand for highway and railway is low, the benefits is relatively low compared with the huge estimated amount of investment involved. So, the two options should not be taken. This report will concentrate mainly on the runway extension of Sandakan Airport and will analyze its Net Present Value (NPV) and its Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR). 3. Research Methodology 3.1 Introduction The presentation of this paper is guided by the 10 steps of doing CBA. It begins with clarifying the standing issues including its alternative project. In this regard, we presented several potential benefits and highlighted the gap between existing infrastructure and the potential benefits. Then we set out the assumption of the benefit and subsequently identify the impacts of both the input (cost) and output (benefit) of each alternative project. At this level, we assigned value upon the impacts of the alternative project. In the context of this Sandakan Airport, we did not identify the unquantified value for the output produced. In valuing the cost, we shall present the result of financial analysis which includes the NPV and the BCR. We assume passenger movements in the airport will increase at the rate of 4.03%, then we would use that figure as the basis to analyze the cash-flow of the project. We also assume the risk and uncertainty that would affect the reliability of calculated NPV. Finally, we summarize the output of this analysis with the concluding statement based on the result identified. 3.2 Assumptions on Passenger Movements From the consultant information which based on a previous passenger trend over 10 years, the consultant decided to choose 4.03% per year on passenger growth projection. But this projection counted both arriving and departing passengers. From the number of total passengers for that particular year, 50% is estimated for departing passengers and 50% for arriving passengers.
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